"HIDE/SEEK: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture" opens today at the Brooklyn Museum despite criticism from conservative groups. The issue is not the show's forthright tackling of gender, sexuality, and gay themes in art history by stalwarts such as George Bellows and AA Bronson so much as its inclusion of one perennially prickly work: the late David Wojnarowicz's "A Fire in My Belly." The video, which includes a ten-second clip of ants crawling on a crucifix, was attacked as sacrilegious by the Catholic League and members of Congress when it first appeared at D.C.'s National Portrait Gallery in 2010. The Smithsonian-run NPG caved under the pressure and removed the provocative work; London's Tate Modern and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, appalled by the censorship, immediately scheduled showings of the embattled video (clips of which are easy to find all over the internet).

Like your art with a side of controversy? Here are four other shows to see right now—before it's too late.

See the personal collages, journals, and paintings of the artist whose "Poleteismo" show caused such a big fuss this summer at the Cultural Center of the Philippines, it had to be shut down. Museum-goers were so angered by Cruz's condom-covered crucifixes and Disney-fied Jesus figurines, they sent the artist death threats and even tried to set some of his works on fire. Former First Lady Imelda Marcos damned the exhibit publicly, and President Benigno Simeon Aquino III issued a statement that said no freedom—including that of artistic expression—is absolute. This Krem show wraps up November 25.

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei may be the PRC's least favorite person right now. The nose-thumbing dissident was detained earlier this year following a crackdown on activists—a misstep that only served to elevate his work on an international level. Though released in June, the artist—who continues to have ongoing tax battles with the government—was forbidden from leaving Beijing; this appropriately named 21-piece retrospective had to be curated via email alone. The show will remain up through January 29.

This seven-month-old museum, located in a crumbling palace just a stone's throw from Prague's heavily touristed Charles Bridge, isn't afraid of a little controversy. One of its staple pieces is David Černý's Shark—a riff on Damien Hirst's The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living—that shows a mostly naked and bound Saddam Hussein suspended in liquid. The work was already banned once by the Belgian town of Middelkerke for fear of upsetting Muslims, and continues to draw ire from entranced visitors. Interestingly, the Museum of Young Art is supported in part by Dvorak Sec Contemporary, a gallery that found itself under fire last month for showcasing notorious Czech prankster Roman Týc's "Grave Robber" series, featuring portraits made of human ashes.

He of _Piss Christ _fame is at it again, despite the aforementioned work being destroyed by Catholic radicals in France earlier this year. Commissioned exclusively for Galleria Pack, the pieces in "Holy Works" re-imagine sacred 15th-century religious paintings like The Last Supper through Serrano's iconoclastic lens. Holy rollers can expect to be offended, but need to hurry it up—the show closes November 19.